Inherited microdeletions in the Angelman and Prader–Willi syndromes define an imprinting centre on human chromosome 15

Nature Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 395-400

  Buiting, Karin ^a   Saitoh, Shinji ^b   Gross, Stephanie ^a   Dittrich, Bärbel ^a   Schwartz, Stuart ^b   Nicholls, Robert D ^b   Horsthemke, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 15; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; GENE DELETION; GENOME IMPRINTING; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANGELMAN SYNDROME; AUTOANTIGENS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; DNA; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMAN; MALE; METHYLATION; MODELS, GENETIC; PEDIGREE; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028939902     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0495-395     Document Type: Article

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